Utopian Experimentation and Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6011622 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Morgan Fritz (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 283-311 |
| Publication date | 2013-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Utopian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1045-991X • E-ISSN: 2154-9648 |
| Publisher | The Pennsylvania State University Press (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5325/utopianstudies.24.2.0283 |
| OpenAlex | W1607011772 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 9 |
Oscar Wilde's only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), has often been viewed as an extension of the escapist aestheticist doctrine of his critical essays and of his utopian vision put forth in “The Soul of Man Under Socialism.” Taking the novel as an instance of a bargain-with-the-devil tale, this essay explores the possibility that, in Dorian Gray, Wilde subjected his abstract utopianism to a concrete fictional experiment, finding it wanting in terms of its omission of the social consequences of self-development through Individualism
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Doctrine · Epistemology · Individualism · Literature · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Soul · Theology · Decadence, Literature, and Society · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Walter Benjamin Studies Compilation · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |